#scheme

I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#gin-blanco #love #owen #scheme #thread

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley. An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (To A Mouse) ↗

— Robert Burns

#fate #men #mice #planning #plans

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#casual #cooking #examination #fact #great

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#national #national government #office #our #people

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#build #could #every #industry #keeping

Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#any #beings #drawn #fraction #human

But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #emissions #global #hoped #i

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#crowning #evolution #far #glory #human

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#evolution #human #inheritance #our #place

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#phonetics #scheme #stiff #thing #uncertain